ext_343650 ([identity profile] cactuswren.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] vintageads2014-08-01 01:35 pm

Weekend event -- pest control

Good Housekeeping, December 1935:



I can only surmise that the "old reliable exterminator", that's been "used the world over for many generations", is arsenic.

[identity profile] spiral-meter.livejournal.com 2014-08-01 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
poor ratties.

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[identity profile] fallconsmate.livejournal.com 2014-08-01 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
ratties raised as pets are different than ratties who are being vermin and spreading diseases. taking out a set of sheets and finding that a rat has made their nest in the drawer and there are huge holes in the bedding?

not so good. rough on rats solved the problem. (mouse droppings are smaller than rat droppings. and this was safer than setting rat traps, which will take off a finger if they go off on you.)

[identity profile] tujorspret.livejournal.com 2014-08-01 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I've seen this brand of rat poison used many times on Discovery ID's "Deadly Women". They should have named it Rough on Husbands

[identity profile] hutchlover.livejournal.com 2014-08-02 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It is. 'Rough on Rats' has been used many many times for murder.

It's in several prominent trial transcripts.